Posted
by
kdawsonon Tuesday July 13, 2010 @04:04PM
from the fire-next-time dept.

katarn writes "Apparently domestic and international pressure, security vulnerabilities, and a $2.2B lawsuit over alleged stolen code have taken their toll on China's Green Dam software censorship program. Green Dam is a separate program from the 'Great Firewall of China,' which remains firmly in place. According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."

It wasn't just a "US Software Firm" it was the infamous Solid Oak, the makers of Cyber Sitter. I just had someone's comp have Cyber Sitter version 10 (the version they ripped off to make Green Dam) blow itself up and removing manually it is an unbelievable pain in the ass. The LSP's regenerate themselves if all pieces of the software aren't deleted at the exact same time. So needless to say, it probably would have worked well which is why they stole it. The funny thing is, it's a pretty poorly rated pro

I observe that officially the official opinion on official officials unofficially offering observations oft results in their officious remains being officially reduced to offal in an operation often offensive to olfactory organs.

"According to Green Dam program partners, funding for the project has not been renewed. The project development team has been shut down and the installation and aftercare team is facing closure. Unsurprisingly there has been no official comment from official Chinese authorities."

Further, Green Dam project partners have been trying to get the development team on the phone for weeks, but just yesterday have been getting "Number not in service" recordings, and the mail and news papers have been collecting at the door of the development team office for months.

Further, Green Dam project partners have been trying to get the development team on the phone for weeks, but just yesterday have been getting "Number not in service" recordings, and the mail and news papers have been collecting at the door of the development team office for months.

In most places that would mean it was out of business. In China it means that, tragically, the developers died in a plane crash after forgetting to put fuel in the tank.

Things work like this in China, if the gov or most of times a particular person who is in charge want sth to be done, and done quickly, you do it as required,and once you grabbed all the money you leave, no one actually cares what happens after wards. No public enquirers will be allowed to question how the gov spent tax money since that info is considered as state secret. You probably know that if you steal a s/w and do some localization work won't cost 20m yuan.

The Australian government spent $84 million trying to do something similar for our measly population and failed. Why should China be any different. Sadly, the Australian government knows that the great firewall works, so now they are biding their time until after the looming election when they will announce the the mere fact they were elected means that they have a mandate to ram internet filtering down our throats at who knows what cost. And the firewall will STILL totally fail to meet its stated goals. Au